Re: email header wrapping and truncation

Albrecht Dreß <[email protected]> Wed, 02 Aug 2017 12:48:25 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnome.apps.balsa
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi Jack:

Sorry for the late reply, I've been on vacation and returned only yesterday…

Am 21.07.17 21:18 schrieb(en) Jack:
> It seems that in this last case, Balsa only sees the first line as the value of that header ("first part of header, but tr") which can cause a problem, if, for example, it is the "Reply-to:" header. I now have two examples of this actually happening. One is marketing messages I used to get from consumer cellular. The other is from the gentoo.org mailing list system. If I send a subscribe reqeust, it replies with a message I need to reply to to confirm the request. However, it's Reply-to is of the third form above, and not noticing the truncation, my first reply just got me an error bounce.

How do you load the message from your ISP's server (POP3, IMAP, fetchmail, etc.)? If you use Balsa's built-in POP3 interface to load them, it might be helpful to enable debugging to check if there is an issue with it (Peter discovered a broken POP3 server recently):

- terminate Balsa
- run Balsa by calling
G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all /path/to/balsa > LOG.out 2> LOG.err
- download the message
- terminate Balsa

You will find the download log by running “grep DEBUG LOG.out”, maybe this will give some more information. If you want to post it here, please remember to anonymise or remove any sensitive information!

Cheers,
Albrecht.

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